Keeping your HOA pool healthy for swimming during COVID-19 during the 2020 pool season. Start by ensuring your neighborhood resident pool members, outside members, all guests, and especially swimmers to stay at least 6 feet apart from one another. This is especially encouraged for those they don’t live with.

While both in and out of the water, your HOA should provide the following:

Physical cues and/or guides, such as:
lane lines in the water or chairs
lines on the pool deck
keep pool chairs on the deck 6 feet apart
lines on the tables
Visual cues, such as:
tape on the decks
tape on the floors
tape on the sidewalks

Promoting behaviors that prevent the spread of COVID-19

HOA’s and neighborhood pools can consider using these different strategies to encourage safety and healthy hygiene, including:

Hand Hygiene And Respiratory Etiquette

Encouraging all pool staff, members, guests and all visitors patrons, and swimmers to wash their hands often and cover their coughs and sneezes.

Masks

Encouraging the use of masks as feasible. Masks are most essential in times when physical distancing is difficult. Advise pool staff, members, guests and all visitors patrons, and swimmers to not wear masks in the water as masks can be difficult to breathe through when they’re wet.

Staying Home

Educating and reminding pool staff, members, guests and all visitors patrons, and swimmers about when to stay home (for example, if they have symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19, or were exposed to someone with COVID-19 within the last 14 days) and when they can safely end their home isolation.

Proper And Adequate Supplies

Ensuring adequate supplies to support healthy hygiene. Supplies include soap, hand sanitizer with at least 60 percent alcohol (for staff and older children who can safely use hand sanitizer), paper towels, tissues, and no-touch trash cans.

Posting Signs and Communicating Through Messages

Posting signs in highly visible locations (for example, at deck entrances and at sinks) about how to
Stop the spreadpdf icon
of COVID-19
Properly wash hands
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Broadcasting regular announcements about how to stop the spread on PA system.
Including messages about behaviors that prevent the spread of COVID-19 in contracts with individual patrons or households, in emails, on facility websites (for example, posting online videos), through HOA’s and facility’s social media accounts, and on entrance tickets).
Remember there is no evidence that COVID-19 can be spread to humans through the use of recreational waters. Follow safe swimming practices along with social distancing and everyday preventative actions to protect yourself.

*Daily Checklist For Staff Image From cdc.gov